Yikes! I never would have gotten Beyonce from that second cake. I was pretty sure it was supposed to be a Charo cake, which I guess could come in handy if you were having a Hollywood Squares themed birthday.

I swore that second cake was Ginger from Gilligan's Isle. Beyonce would probably have been the LAST person to come to mind.As for the Hannah Montana one I digress with a LOLCat crossover: In Soviet Russia, cake eats YOU!

Ok, how much do my responses make me feel dated?! I thought they were (in order of appearance) Madonna, Raquel Welch, and Debbie Gibson! *groan* I'm going to go apply some more anti-wrinkle cream and go back to bed!

For some reason I wanted to guess Dolly Parton for all of them, except for the fact that her, ahem, most notable assets were not on display (although the Beyonce one was close). I actually didn't realize these were supposed to be three different singers until the end of the post.

Word verification: ingsh, n.: The botched versions of English that appears on some of our favorite Cake Wrecks, such as "It a Gril!"

I thought the first one was Madonna, though I wasn't clear on the swollen belly/insect connection. I had no idea on the second, but I knew the third was Miley Cyrus right away - it was the mouth. Which is as creepy as the eyes, in my opinion.

And here's a question - if we can at least identify them, does that automatically make them a little less wreckish?

Also: Back in high school my friends and I hated abbreviations, yet a ton of people would abbreviate "birthday" as "b-day." We would read it as "bidet" and wish people a "Happy Bidet." I even made a card of a smiling bidet for such occasions.

I thought sure the middle one was Charro. And I was certain the last one was Suzanne Somers until I noticed that it was for a 6-year-old. Not a whole whole lot of 6-year-old Three's Company fans, I'm guessing.

On the first one, brown poo icing does not frame it well, in my opinion. And at first, I thought she was holding a cigarette that got erased to have her hand out like that. Did anyone else think that, too?

The first one I was going for Madonna. The Beyonce one I thought was Sophia Loren. The Hannah Montana one - I totally thought was Crissy from Three's Company. Looks like I sucked on all of them - however I like my guesses better!!

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Holy shoot those cakes are scary. O.OI only actually guessed the Hannah Montana one. I've never heard of the Tori person, and the cake isn't helping. I've heard of Beyonce (who hasn't?), buut, the resemblence is not exactly striking. xD

Oh, dear God. What does it mean that I guessed Hannah Montana correctly? Do I need counseling? The other two I thought were Cybil Sheppard and Charro. Not singers, but brilliant likenesses all the same!

Oh man, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought the second cake was Charo. (This is probably the most mentioning she has had on the internet!) I thought the first one was Madonna and the third Brittney.

No. way. That 2nd cake is NOT Beyonce. The cake doesn't even begin to match the cover! I'm with just about everyone else...that's Charro. I also thought the first cake was a very poorly rendered Madonna.

I got the third one right though. Actually, whoever did that cake did a pretty good job on it, considering the subject matter and what they have to work with.

*is vastly relieved the David Hasselhoff cake I sold a few weeks back did not make it on here*

I am LOL because I was sure that I was the only nut that saw Charro on that second cake. Then I started to read the comments and realized that I was definitely not alone. I guess we all know where to go if we ever find ourselves in need of a Charro cake!

Ok, I was thinking Madonna, and then either J-Lo or Whose that singer that had the albumn Butterfly, she always wears short dresses and stiletto's...she has the really long hair that is straight, she is young...ugghh...I am so bad with names...Oh OH Oh Mariah Carey...that's it... and then Madonna again...

I thought #1 was Madonna, #2 Jessica Simpson and #3 the woman who plays Allison DuBois on "medium", which I did think was an odd choice for a six year old....Hmm, verification word "cones"- kind of goes with the Madonna thing :-)

I thought the first one was Joni Mitchell, the second one was Charo (so glad I'm not alone on that one), and I got the third one right. I don't know HOW I thought that was supposed to be Hannah Montana, but I did. Scary!

I didn't really know who the first one could be, the second one I thought for sure was a young Raquel Welch (and I'm not the only one! yay!), and the third looked just like Patricia Arquitte to me, though she's not a singer. I'm just not up on kids and their crazy stars though.

This reminds me of a notable scene from the 80s, involving my Mom. She wanted to buy the new Willie Nelson album (sheesh...album...how old am I?), but when she got to the store, she forgot his name. She came home with the Lionel Richie album. The one with his picture on the cover. Ummm...Mom? Willie and Lionel don't really look alike TO ME...

I thought that the first one was Madonna and the second one was Paula Abdul. I couldn't stop staring at the TEETH in the third one long enough to even hazard a guess. Those teeth will haunt my nightmares for years to come...

I thought the first one was Stevie Nicks and was completely stumped on the second one (still am, even though I know the answer). I got the Hannah Montana cake, but only because it was for a six-year-old girl.

I thought the first one was Madonna and the second was Sophia Loren, but I think I was getting influenced by the Oscars. Oh wait, that doesn't work because Beyonce was at the Oscars too and in a more prominent role. Damn.

That second one was definitely Charo. I thought, how great that someone has such a love for Charo that they requested a cake of her. I thought maybe the first one was a 70's Stevie Nicks, but I think that's just because she looked strung out and all hippy. I guessed the Miley one right away. It's the teeth, those frighteningly prominent and eerily straight and protruding teeth!

Oh dear. I never noticed Hannah Montana's crazy eyes, either. And now they will haunt me.

I love how everyone thought the second one was Charo. But I guess it makes some sense. The "cake" drawing looks like it has a tiny waist and really big boobs. You're not left with many options....because Dolly Parton is blonde. :D

I'm actually rather glad I was wrong on all of them. And I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought #2 was MC! You think mayeb if someone requested her on a cake, the decorator would end up making her look like Beyonce?

OK, so my guesses were Madonna, Britney Spears and Courtney Love. I have no clue who Tori Amos is, but I do know that looks NOTHING like the pic on the magazine except for the butterfly. Wow, sure hope if anyone ever plans on putting my face on a cake, they at least do the rice paper photo thing. I can only imagine what I'd end up looking like in frosting.

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